“Wat mooi dat andermans ellende soms helemaal niet zo erg is.”Mania 307​“Before Daylight is a real vitamin injection to get through the day. Neal returns to the universe of his first albums. With his unique voice and guitar style, this is a major release.”Keys & Chords

NEAL BLACK, from San Antonio, Texas is one the most important American artists on the Blues scene today....His music is rooted in Texas tradition, but NEAL BLACK is no imitator, He is an innovator. A powerful performer, a gifted songwriter, and a transcendental guitarist. NEAL BLACK is one of the hottest talents to emerge from Texas in over a decade..." ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE ​

"With lines such as "Welcome to New York City where the subway rats wear Italian shoes," "war lord politicians" and "walking in the cemetery sunshine reading poetry on gravestones," Black isn't blowing smoke up your skirt and telling you everything's going to be hunky dory. True-ringing topics run from Mexican drug-war participants (Gringo Bring Me Your Guns) to the lines and lies rakes, rounders, junkies and drunks have used for centuries (Yesterday's Promises Tomorrow)..But all's not bleak with Black. The disc's instrumentals, including Chicken Shack Cognac and Buda, Texas Boogie, on which he swaps rollicking riffs and solos with Popa Chubby and guitarist Fred Chapellier, are positively joyful. Sometimes the Truth hurts, but not always."SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS

“Since the deaths of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and John Campbell, Neal Black has been the King of the Voodoo Blues...Black's incendiary guitar work place him among the most powerful straddlers of blues and rock going – seat him alongside Ronnie Earl and Johnny Winter. ”TURBULA, San Diego ,CALIFORNIA

"Neal Black is a refreshing change as he chops and channels the standard Blues Rock format into a souped up Hendrix meets Johnny Winter. As a vocalist Black sounds like a white Howling Wolf or a black Tom Waits “SAN ANTONIO LIGHT ,TEXAS

“Stevie Ray's demise brings a battalion of guitarists reaching for the Grail.Texas fretmaster Neal Black is one of the best we've heard in a while .Neal Black racks so many hairpins into his debut you'd swear the furies of hell were on his trail “PULSE MAGAZINE & BOSTON PHOENIX ,NEW YORK /BOSTON

"Texas Guitarist ,Neal Black is New York City's best kept secret and possibly one of the greatest “unknown Blues Rock guitarists “ in the U.S.A.. Black plays with enough emotion to make you cry and rocks hard enough to make the ceiling collapse around the sweat soaked audience, lucky enough to catch his act live”SOUND GAZETTE , PENNSYLVANIA

“Neal Black has a voice of 100 miles of back country roads and a guitar as desperate as a cornered outlaw “THE MUSIC PAPER , NEW YORK

"With vocals smooth as gravel in a meat grinder and bad-to-the-bone guitar this isn't for weak hearts. If you like your boogie 'n' blues raw and back-alley, you'll wear this one out !!"EASYRIDERS MAGAZINE